Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-02
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.

Albany proposes TO erect a qloo'Voo
wooden factory.
A $4,000 Congregational church is
to be erected I'M The Dalles.
Through mail is now being carried
between Albany and Newport.
Pendleton supports fifteen lawyers
five doctors and three dentists.
The hay and grain crop this year IN
Crook county is going to be scarce.
The Lebanon road across the Cas-
cades is open, the snow all being gone.
A glass factory for making bottles,
Jars and plain ware is in prospect at
Albina.
It is estimated that Umatilla county
will harvest 100000 bushels OF grain
this year. 40 ~
Roseburg school directors have let
the contract for new school house to
cost $4,000.
A man named Brown, living near
Corvallis, was drowned in the Will
lamette at that place.
A six-year boy named Hatton
was drowned in Couch lake, Portland,
by falling from raft.
Red fish are beginning to ascend the
Grand Ronde river, and the Wallowa
lake will soon be populated with them.
James McInroe, an old pioneer OF
Baker City, was killed at that place by
falling under the wheels Of caboose.
The infant son of ]. A. and Sarah
Wright was drowned in the tlume OF
the Hurricane creek saw mill at
Joseph.
A book-keeper named AL. Sherfin,
employed in the brewery at Lakeview,
shot and killed sheep-herder named
G. F. Pone.
The little child of Samuel Mills,
living in Fox Valley, Linn county,
was scalded to death by falling into a
tub OF boiling water.
There is a force of 5000 or 7O0O
men at work ON the Oregon and Cali
fornia grade, which is nearly COM
pleted. Staging has been reduced to
twelve miles.
G. P. Dixon pleaded guilty to en-
bezzling some $1,000 OF the funds OF
the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
Gus Larsen,a fisherman, was drowned
at Megler's cannery at Brookfeld
The boom OF a boat struck him and
knocked him into the water. The
body was recovered.
A man named Johnson fell through
q bridge with a team at Parkersville
near Gervais, and presented claim to
to the county court for $3.50. The
matter was settled by the court paying
to him $85.
The Jacksonville Sentinel claims thai
there has been 100000 worth O
gold dust brought into that town dur
ing the past year. The Grants Pass
Courier figures the amount sold in 10
sephine county at $4,000.
Eddie Graham, sheep-herder OF
Willow creek, near Prineville, was rob
bed OF his watch and pocket money {
few days ago, while he was going Il
his camp. The man met him on tn,
road, drew a pistol and told him to ode
liver up" and he did SO.
A settler named Ball, while olearins
land on his claim near Carrico valley
on the Nehalem road near st. Helens
felled tree upon himself. In orde
to extricate him it was necessary t
saw the tree in two. Balls iniurie,
arc pronounced fatal.
Suit was begun in the U. S. Circui
Court by Mrs. Thomasina Lowr,
against R. Koehler, as receiver of tn
0. & c. Railroad, to recover 5000
damages for the loss OF her husband
Arthur t. Lowry, who died from inju
ries received by the premature explo
sion of a blast while working on III
bluff near Oregon City.
| William Egan, of this valley, ha
discovered an extensive salt marsh
about eighty feet across, says the Lake
view Examiner. Around the edges tn
ground is covered with three-incl
layer of good SALT all through tn,
center the water bubbles up like waite
boiling. All the water is thick witt
salt. 1t is considered valuable fine
Tor the community as well as for Mr.
Eagan. 1t is located ten miles east O
north OF Silver Lake. Mr.. Egan il
now busy building watts to evaporate
the water into salt.
Citizens living in Tygh valley, Wasct
county, have sent to Gov. Pennoyel
the result of the proceedings of a pub
he meeting held there recently, il
which action was taken upon a change
OF the northern boundary of the Warn
Springs reservation, so as to include q
number of farms of settlers in thai
valley. 1t is claimed by them that The
boundary is twelve miles south Of
where the pOyarp ont